New FISA Law to Get First Legal Challenge

[Buttercup McToots]

New FISA Law to Get First Legal Challenge
New FISA Law to Get First Legal Challenge
By Paul Kiel - August 10, 2007, 10:49 AM
From the AP:

Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees asked a federal judge Thursday to invalidate a days-old law that lets government agents eavesdrop on suspected terrorists without first getting court-approved warrants.
They said the measure signed into law Sunday by President Bush is illegal because it gives the national intelligence director and the U.S. attorney general too much power to intercept communications of suspected terrorists overseas -- even when they are talking to someone in the United States.


That didn't take long.

[EVDebs]

1. Besides that, what is a FISA Court good for now anyway ? They're useless and know it

[FormerDittoHead]

2. Do you think this was the plan?

Everyone's been harping on how the bill had MORE than Bush wanted, but perhaps that was the idea all along...

Perhaps if they had given ONLY what Bush had wanted the courts would have UPHELD the law?

But now, in November the Dem's can say they voted for the "tough on terror" bill, (or at least insulate themselves from charges that they're soft on terror...